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Main Authors: Wang, Yang, Ahrens, Sven
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13200
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author Wang, Yang
Ahrens, Sven
author_facet Wang, Yang
Ahrens, Sven
contents We demonstrate that spin-dependent electron diffraction is possible for a smooth range of transverse electron momenta in a two-photon Bragg scattering scenario of the Kapitza-Dirac effect. Our analysis is rendered possible by introducing a generalized specification for quantifying spin-dependent diffraction, yielding an optimization problem which is solved by making use of a Newton gradient iteration scheme. With this procedure, we investigate the spin-dependent effect for different transverse electron momenta and different laser polarizations of the standing light wave Kapitza-Dirac scattering. The possibility for using arbitrarily low transverse electron momenta, when setting up a spin-dependent Kapitza-Dirac experiment allows longer interaction times of the electron with the laser and therefore enables less constraining parameters for an implementation of the effect.
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spellingShingle Parameter space investigation for spin-dependent electron diffraction in the Kapitza-Dirac effect
Wang, Yang
Ahrens, Sven
Quantum Physics
We demonstrate that spin-dependent electron diffraction is possible for a smooth range of transverse electron momenta in a two-photon Bragg scattering scenario of the Kapitza-Dirac effect. Our analysis is rendered possible by introducing a generalized specification for quantifying spin-dependent diffraction, yielding an optimization problem which is solved by making use of a Newton gradient iteration scheme. With this procedure, we investigate the spin-dependent effect for different transverse electron momenta and different laser polarizations of the standing light wave Kapitza-Dirac scattering. The possibility for using arbitrarily low transverse electron momenta, when setting up a spin-dependent Kapitza-Dirac experiment allows longer interaction times of the electron with the laser and therefore enables less constraining parameters for an implementation of the effect.
title Parameter space investigation for spin-dependent electron diffraction in the Kapitza-Dirac effect
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13200